Re: [SLUG] Lindows succumbs to Microsoft

From: Eric Jahn (eric@ejahn.net)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 19:49:07 EDT


On Wednesday 14 April 2004 05:57 pm, you wrote:
> MS has been putting off the trial in the
> USA while
> proceeding to sue Lindows around the world. So this was their solution.

IIRC, the reason Microsoft is laying off on Lindows in the US is that it was
ruled sometime back that Windows is not a Microsoft trademark and is rather a
generic computing term with Unix history, or something like that. Parodies
are legal, so I propose Winblows XP (Xtra Proprietary) for any OS that wants
to have a name like Windows.

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